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Rebecca Kiefer Tentative Plan:

Biography


Children's/Fairytales


Classic Fiction (>50 years old)
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea by Yukio Mishima
Translated from the Japanese by John Nathan

Contemporary fiction


Fantasy


Folklore/Mythology


Graphic Novels/Manga/Comics


History (Non-fiction)
Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime Sarajevo by Zlata Filipović
Translated from the Bosnian by Christina Pribićević-Zorić

Horror
Out by Natsuo Kirino
Translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder

Humor


Literary Fiction/Historical Fiction
The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas
Translated from the French by Richard Pevear

Memoir/Autobiography
The Dark Child by Camara Laye
Translated from the French by James Kirkup and Ernest Jones

Mystery (Nordic Noir)
My First Murder by Leena Lehtolainen
Translated from the Finnish by Owen Witesman

Non-fiction (Essays, Cookbooks, Self-help, True crime, etc.)


Poetry/Epics


Romance


Science Fiction/Dystopia
The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya
Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell

Short Stories


Thrillers/Suspense/Espionage
The Tokyo Zodiac Murders by Soji Shimada
Translated from the Japanese by Shika MacKenzie

Travel Writing


Wildcard (Magical Realism)
Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo
Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden

Young Adult/New Adult


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